That would be Leo Komarov and Nazem Kadri, who have been skating on the same line together pretty much since 2015-16 — but not at Tuesday’s Maple Leafs practice. It’s not like a spur-of-the-moment thing.”Indeed, talk about the coach sticking to his line combos surfaced over two weeks ago. The solution for now is to split up Komarov and Kadri, with Mitch Marner moving from the fourth line to skate with Kadri and Patrick Marleau. he’ll give us a bit of a different look,” said Kadri, who has one goal in his last 20 games. Babcock said the club is trying to create “unbelievable” depth along the blue line throughout the organization at the defence position.
Source: thestar January 24, 2018 00:22 UTC